Gu H, Cimino J J, Halper M, Geller J, Perl Y
CIS Dept. & CMS NJIT, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp. 1996:274-8.
Comprehension of complex controlled vocabularies is often difficult. We present a method, facilitated by an object-oriented database, for depicting such a vocabulary (the Medical Entities Dictionary (MED) from the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center) in a schematic way which uses a sparse inheritance network of area classes. The resulting Object Oriented Health Vocabulary repository (OOHVR) allows visualization of the 43,000 MED concepts as 90 area classes. This view has provided valuable information to those responsible with maintaining the MED. As a result, the MED organization has been improved and some previously-unrecognized errors and inconsistencies have been removed. We believe that this schematic approach allows improved comprehension of the gestalt of large controlled medical vocabulary.
理解复杂的受控词汇表往往很困难。我们提出了一种由面向对象数据库辅助的方法，用于以示意图的方式描绘这样一个词汇表（哥伦比亚长老会医学中心的医学实体词典（MED）），该示意图使用区域类的稀疏继承网络。由此产生的面向对象健康词汇表存储库（OOHVR）允许将43000个MED概念可视化为90个区域类。这一视图为负责维护MED的人员提供了有价值的信息。结果，MED的组织得到了改进，一些以前未被识别的错误和不一致之处也被消除了。我们相信，这种示意图方法能够提高对大型受控医学词汇表整体的理解。
